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Dan Gillmor

A reminder that the New York Times coverage of Section 230 has been dishonest for a long time.

The "paper of record" relentlessly frames this a Congressional favor for tech giants. In fact, the law protects freedom of expression -- yours and mine -- on the sites where we share, and the ones we own. It also protects our right to edit.

This is about money, and control. Traditional media have less of both due to the Internet. They want it back.

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APPLE!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Dan Gillmor

It is disappointing that even now, critics of Section 230 persist in calling it a big-tech "get out of jail free card" -- it is the law that protects all of us, and the repeal of which would substantially wreck online freedom of expression.

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Bobby Brown

I am really struggling to find the words for what I'm trying to do, but if anything I've been agonizing over in my writing resonates with you and you're hungry for revolution, if you want to do something right now, I hope I can earn your collaboration in these next steps I see before us.

If the thing to do is to convene a group for these purposes and give it a name, I have some ideas.

I really do mean this is my idea of leadership. I absolutely can't "do" it alone. That makes no sense to me!

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Bobby Brown

Leadership in anarchism is self-suspicious, and ultimately self-defeating, or at least self-replacing. It is exerting power toward anti-power goals by spreading it undeniably & automatically, rather than withholding it. This requires careful measure of your input anticipating all modulations, knowing you have no control over the outcomes. This is why anarchists build the world we want out of what it should be made of, right now; prefiguration. This is more than just a revolutionary vanguard.

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Bobby Brown

It scares the shit out of me, but I want to commit this year to learning what it means to bring healthy leadership to anarchism. It seems to me like just a powerfully cohesive exertion and consistent exposition of a maximal anarchism, in oneself and in social existence.

I will need your help like anyone would. This challenges me to overcome my vicious PTSD, but the rewards will be precisely that which heals me—the greatest among them is to see you finding new ways to practice anarchism yourself

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Laser Bloc

Some Stafford Beer for your Friday.

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Will Wilkinson

The closer I get to this stuff, the clearer it is to me that "addict/surveil/extract/sell" biz models have ruined the internet really are wrecking mental health, propagating disinfo, dissolving social cohesion, etc. with very little real compensating upside. I think the case for this gets stronger everyday. But there is a TON of resistance to this among "tech people" generally, even those who work for places that would benefit from the demise of surveillance capitalism.

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sickos_yes.png IT'S HAPPENING

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Advanced Persistent Teapot

Mastodon admins: remember that your threat model is now based on the people who have chosen to make their home in your instance. If that includes Saudis or Chinese people critical of their governments, Turkish journalists, any kind of diplomatic personnel, military aerospace engineers... their threats are now your threats.

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Jen Simmons

Today is the day. Web Push on iOS.

webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push

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Robin Syl 🌸:blobcatreach:​

Roses are red, my code is a disaster
git push --force origin master

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Russ Garrett

A reminder that if you claim something is end-to-end encrypted and there is a vulnerability, it's quite possible that people will die.

E2E systems are safety critical and shouldn't be taken lightly.

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Your friendly 'net denizen

I wonder how many people don't know that Firefox's "reader view" can bypass a lot of paywalls they hit. You'll have to hit refresh after enabling it on a page, but that's it. No special extensions required.

(This doesn't work on all paywalls. Just the ones that initially deliver you the content on the page before some javascript takes it away.)

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vga256

just uploaded some ultra obscure freeware to #macintosh garden: micahsoft Button Maker

this little utility lets you generate mac os x aqua-like buttons programmatically.

afaik, this program hasn't been seen by a human being in 20 years. was an obscure internet archive find.

macintoshgarden.org/apps/micah

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Talia Lavin

RT @0ddette
“If it can do this to bc chickens in one night, imagine what it’s going to do to us in 20 years” She said she smelled chlorine when she went to walk her dog and it made her eyes water but officials said the air is “safe,” all of her chickens died overnight wkbn.com/news/local-news/east- twitter.com/i/web/status/16241

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Sara Safavi

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

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Sophie

Me, as aspiring staff eng: I want to be in the room where decisions are made

Me in the room where decisions are made: I wonder if the window is locked and how far the drop would be if I climbed out

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Itamar Turner-Trauring

OMG.

1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.
2. News articles were written about this.
3. Bing's summarization interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!

🤦

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emrox

last chance to use tools to easily move your followings from Twitter to Mastodon since Twitter is finally shutting down their free API. fedifinder.glitch.me/ was handy for me

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